Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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Best Quotes about Anger

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

11.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

12.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

13.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

25.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

32.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

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33.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

43.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

47.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

49.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German